[alife] Swarm Intelligence & Evolutionary Computation

[Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie]

 AISB 2017 Swarm Intelligence & Evolutionary Computation

Submission deadline: 14 Feb 2017


==== CALL FOR PAPER:

Swarm intelligence (SI) and evolutionary computation (EC) techniques have
been thriving research topics, specially with the dominating presence of
big data in all aspects of technology and and their importance in policy
making for institutions, governments and international bodies.

Self-organising nature of swarm intelligence in both nature and
computational models is key to the attractiveness of such techniques;
several such techniques are already proposed, not only explaining and
reflecting on the natural-and-social phenomena but also their application
to solve complex problems in many fields is an ongoing observation.

Additionally, noisy environments and/or incomplete data are often at the
heart of hard real-world data where search and optimisation-related
problems are amongst the core issues. Ever since the inception of SI and EC
techniques, researchers have been attracted to the complex emergent
behaviour, robustness and easy-to-understand architecture of
nature-inspired swarm intelligence algorithms; and, particularly in
challenging search environments, these algorithms have often proved more
useful than conventional approaches.

This symposium would be facilitating the discussion of emerging topics in
this context and would encourage early-career researchers, enthusiasts as
well as senior academics to engage in a dialogue surrounding the
applications and theories based on swarm intelligence and evolutionary
computation techniques.

Topics of interest for this symposium include, but not limited to:
* applied and theoretical research in swarm intelligence and evolutionary
computation
* applications of swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation
techniques to real-world problems
* studying the behaviour of social insects, social animals and natural
phenomena in the context of swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation
techniques

==== IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission of papers: 14 February 2017 (Final and non-extendible)
    Notification of acceptance: 6 March 2017
    Camera-ready submission: 13 March 2017
    Symposium: 20 April 2017


==== INVITED SPEAKER

    Prof. Juergen Branke
    Professor of Operational Research & Systems
    University of Warwick

==== PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

    Prof. Mark Bishop (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
    Prof. Marco Dorigo, (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
    Dr. Mohammed El-Abd, (American University of Kuwait)
    Prof. Andries Engelbrecht, (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
    Colin Johnson (University of Kent, UK)
    Dr. Edward Keedwell, (University of Exeter, UK)
    Dr. Ryan Layne, (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
    Prof. Xiaodong Li (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
    Clerc Maurice, (Independent Consultant on Optimisation, France)
    Dr. Mahamed G. H. Omran (Gulf University for Science & Technology,
Kuwait)
    Prof. David A. Pelta, (University of Granada, Spain)
    Prof. Patrick Siarry, (University of Paris-Est Creteil, France)
    Prof. Ponnuthurai Suganthan, (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
    Dr. German Terrazas Angulo, (University of Nottingham, UK)
    Dr. Neil Vaughan (Bournemouth University, UK)


==== SUBMISSION

Please limit submissions to eight pages of text, including notes and
bibliography, formatted according to AISB guidelines. Here are templates
for the preparation of papers for the convention:

https://sites.google.com/site/aisb2017si/submissions

==== SUBMISSION LINK

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisb2017si

Authors of accepted papers (up to 8-pages) will be expected to give 30
minute presentations, including 5 to 10 minutes for questions, on the day
of the symposium.


We are considering the publication of a selection of extended and
re-reviewed papers from the symposium in a journal special issue.

==== VENUE

University of Bath, United Kingdom

==== FURTHER INFORMATION

More details can be found via
http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk/
https://sites.google.com/site/aisb2017si/




Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Computing Department
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/mohammad